To be honest, I think these top coolers are all about equal. I almost believe it comes down to the mount. I did notice a rather large difference (over 5c) loaded on my E8400 vs. my zalman.

so it almost makes sense for cooler manufacturers to invest more R&D into mounting hardware then to minimise the bad mount effect i guess

It does have a nice mount.

I hate the THor's Hammer Mount, unless you're previous employee at the WillyWonka Chocolate Factory with iddy biddy hands, you won't get any gorrilla paws in there to screw it down.

Put two 125cfm Delta's on my Noctua and it brought by cpu temp down 10C. Previoulsy I had one of the Noctua fans and a CM garbage fan on it. Runs in the low 30s which isn't far from water temps.

WOW very nice!

Well I meant a proper mount on the cpu lol, but you are right. Most coolers mounting SUCKS!! Megahalem is very easy to work with other than the fact one of the holes were off on the 1366 holes. Pissed me off for sure.

This cooler is about a 1000x's easier to mount up than anything I've used before. Such a relief for a quick change type of guy. Shoulda checked this one out from the git go. Thx chuchnit.

Neuromancer will have to fight with the Thor's Hammer mount from here on out, lol.

are you referring to the Megahelams? I've heard nothing but great thing, supposed to be the best cooler out there heh?

Hah, now I know why you sent it to me! Because I specifically said I was saving up for the megahalem :p

Well it is going to be stressed on I7, hope i dont ruptre any heatpipes!!! :p

(hmm really should get another panflo 38mm fan to make a nice push pull setup... )

jk.... Thanks again Kal. Will have Mjolnir back to you safe and sound inside a month :)





side note
Any see that 92mm Coolermaster heatsink with offeset push pull config? Looked really interesting if it has a high fin density the turbulence cause by the design coupled with some 38mm high pressure fans could really make it something

92mm fan size limits it of course... but the design looks interesting..